Solid Fuel Stove Recommendations?

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We've decided to fit a solid fuel stove so we can live aboard more comfortably in the colder/wetter months (ie summer nowadays!).

If we can find a stove which we can strap/mount to our mast support post, and which doesn't protrude much more than 30cm from it in any direction - and which can kick out at least 2kW - I think we can then install it in a way which is not totally permanent, so a future buyer of our boat, when it came time to sell, would not be put off if they did not fancy having a stove aboard... so the boat could easily be returned to a standard layout.

Is that enough info?

Any recommendations?
 
The Joint Bath and Exmoor Massive (of the forum) is in the process of building a similar one to this

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/gypsy-car...086?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2a256436ee

with guard rails and steel outer cover, and mods to make it adaptable to live afloat, such as a chimney with a screw cap.


We are past the prelim design phase and waiting for the steel to arrive for welding up. :)

Price (minus chimney kit) shoudl be around £120 (X fingers)
 
Sarabande, is there any reason why one of those Gypsy stoves couldn't be adapted for use in a house, with relevant flue?

Just thinking I need a wee boost to supplement two small storage heaters in my fourplex studio apartment thing and that would appear ideal to replace a ceramic air heater which is becoming a bit expensive to run....
 
FI, no reason. They seem to be well built (6mm plate), and flexible to add a sockdrying rail - cum - heat guard round the edge, and a stand to account for different mounting positions.

Our design has flue options to make it easy to take from the back or R or L sides. Also a good ash pan so that emptying the box does not entail shedding hot ashes all over the cabin sole. And an overwhelming desire to make it safe.


Perhaps we need a forum standard boaty-designed stove ? :)


The maker of those stoves (and similar makers) says he can adapt and enlarge them as required.


One thing for a house is that a flue might require a damper, as a normal domestic draught might be too much for a wee stove.
 
Had Bengco in a 32ft. boat. Excellent bit of kit. Needs, however to be mounted low or your head is hot and your tootsies cold for some time.
 
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sarabande said:
The Joint Bath and Exmoor Massive (of the forum) is in the process of building a similar one to this

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/gypsy-car...086?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2a256436ee

with guard rails and steel outer cover, and mods to make it adaptable to live afloat, such as a chimney with a screw cap.


We are past the prelim design phase and waiting for the steel to arrive for welding up. :)

Price (minus chimney kit) shoudl be around £120 (X fingers)
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Please keep us posted on progress. Are you planning to sell them? If so, I and others would I'm sure be interested...
 
CaptainBob said:
We've decided to fit a solid fuel stove so we can live aboard more comfortably in the colder/wetter months (ie summer nowadays!).

If we can find a stove which we can strap/mount to our mast support post, and which doesn't protrude much more than 30cm from it in any direction - and which can kick out at least 2kW - I think we can then install it in a way which is not totally permanent, so a future buyer of our boat, when it came time to sell, would not be put off if they did not fancy having a stove aboard... so the boat could easily be returned to a standard layout.

Is that enough info?

Any recommendations?
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You'll have seen most of them before, here's a couple you may not have...

Windy Smithy "Wendy"

Northern Fabrications "Boatman"

The first of those might suit for size & output...
 
Related question - flue proximity to vent ?

Hi,

If I can be permitted a related question, can anyone tell me the nearest permissable distance the flue can be to a vent ?

Sunrunner (UFO 34) used to have a heater but it had been removed before I bought her, and the hole the flue passed through has been sealed with a white plastic cap. The other side of the bulkhead that the heater was mounted to is the heads and there is a vent there which is still present.

The vent and flue cap are very close together (see pic - vent arrowed in green, flue cap arrowed in red) and as I am considering fitting a heater I wondered what if any guidelines apply to such sitings ?

Thanks,

Boo2


flue_near_vent.jpg
 
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sarabande said:
The Joint Bath and Exmoor Massive (of the forum) is in the process of building a similar one to this

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/gypsy-car...086?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2a256436ee

with guard rails and steel outer cover, and mods to make it adaptable to live afloat, such as a chimney with a screw cap.


We are past the prelim design phase and waiting for the steel to arrive for welding up. :)

Price (minus chimney kit) shoudl be around £120 (X fingers)
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Went for £62,+pp which is a sensible price imo, was watching it and was very temped to bid.
 
Boo 2 - that does look close!

Generally, boats ventilate from aft forwards, when at anchor, and I assume the heads vent is an extractor, so possibly OK, but since we are thinking of carbon monoxide, maybe it would be as well to keep the heads vent closed when the stove is in use?

Fit a CO monitor in the heads?
 
FishyInverness said:
Sarabande, is there any reason why one of those Gypsy stoves couldn't be adapted for use in a house, with relevant flue?

Just thinking I need a wee boost to supplement two small storage heaters in my fourplex studio apartment thing and that would appear ideal to replace a ceramic air heater which is becoming a bit expensive to run....
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I've got a gas fire, with accompanying chimney flue to suit.
Putting a 'normal' solid fuel stove in, would require either rebuilding the flue to larger diameter, or knocking another hole through & fitting an external S/S flue.

Would one of these work, with the 50mm flue fitting inside my existing gas one (with gas fire removed of course :D)?
 
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